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turins-inbred-child · 4 months ago

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Nienna about to strangle anyone who says that orcs are unredeemable or shouldn't be pitied.

seeing wayyyyyy to many so called “fans” on twitter saying that orcs are “ontologically evil”. Tolkien was catholic and ontological evil doesn't exist according to catholic doctrine, since evil is defined as the absence of good so pure evil is just nothingness.

also orcs have souls and only God/Eru can create souls according to the silm, and all souls have some amount of free will to choose between good and evil.

and God/Eru loves all his children, he wouldn't create a soul that is going to be evil with no hope of redemption and salvation. that would be a Calvinist heresy.

that is why Tolkien struggled with the origins of the orcs so much in his later writings and regretted how they had been written.

there are a LOT of things to criticize in rings of power, but humanizing the orcs is not one of them.

#tolkien #rings of power #the rings of power #trop season 2 #nienna #orcs #justice for baby orc #silmarillion #morgoth's ring #the problem of evil #eru iluvatar #ontological evil #catholiscism #christianity #catholic faith #also the concept of a race of people that are born irredeemably evil has a history with some pretty nasty heretical beliefs in Christianity #which have been used to promote racism and antisemitism #(I'm looking at you serpent seed)#it isn't just because of wokeness that people think that the unsympathetic depictions of orcs is problematic #so no #there is a whole lot more to the racism allegations than “OrcS aRe LiKe OprEssEd MiNoriTieS”#its the entire concept of an evil inherently race that is racist #I dont think that Tolkien was intentionally being racist #he just didn't fully think through the moral and theological implications of the orcs until it was too late to fix it

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